Combined standing rocker and morris chair.



L. HALEY. COMBINED STANDING ROCKER AND MORRIS CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED MARJ, 1907. 927,234, Patented July 6, 1909. 2 BHEETS-SHBET 1.

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A. L. HALEY. COMBINED STANDING ROCKER AND MORRIS CHAIR.

APPLIGATION FILED MAR.7,1907.,

Patented July 6, 1909. 2 SHEETS-811133 2.

ARTHUR L. HALEY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED STANDING ROCKER AND MORRIS CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Application filed March 7, 1907. Serial No. 361,165. i

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR L. HALEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State-of California, have invented a new and useful Combined Standing Becker and Improved Morris Chair, of which the following is a specification.

It is of the objects of this invention to pro vide a chair adapted for use as a rocker and a reclining chair, and as a dining-room chair, the same being transformable from one to another kind of chair with great ease and convenience by the occupant of the chair; and by means of which the chair can be given any desired inclination of back or seat, or may be brought into rigid vertical position, or may be left free to rock as a rocking chair.

The invention may be applied in an improved Morris-chair in which the seat of the chair as well as the back can be given a desired inclination.

An object of the invention is to provide a chair with means by which the occupant may adjust the same at will to any unevenness of the floor, ground, or other surface on which the chair may be seated.

The invention may be embodied in various forms, and I do not limit the same to any specific form of construction, although I shall illustrate the same in a specific form invented by me.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention in a form I at present deem satisfactory.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined standing rocker and improved Morrischair embodying this invention, with. parts in position to form a standing chair. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same as a rockingchair. Fig. 3 is a view with parts in position to form a reclining chair. Fig. 4 is a broken longitudinal section taken on the line as, Fig. 5, through one of the posts or standards and the rocker which is fastened thereto. Fig. 5 is a view of the bottom of one of the rockers looking into a way and at the end of the scotch therein. Fig. 6 is a broken longitudinal, sectional detail on line indicated by a, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a fragmental elevation from the right of Fig. 6 showing the flushplate, a portion of the scotch or strut, and the handle and clam therefor. Fig. 8 is an elevation of the fins -plate detached. Fig.

9 is a section. on line a, Figs. 6 and 7. Fig. 10 is a plan section on line a Figs. 6 and '7 Fig. 11 is a detail of the guide and clampplate support detached.

The chair comprises in combination the usual seat 1, back 2, rockers 3, and means 4 for supporting the back at various inclinations, and is also provided with posts 5 connccting the seat and rockers, and with arms 6 supported by said posts.

The chair is provided with a plurality of scotches, indicated in. a general manner by the character 7, which may be variously con structed and adjustably mounted on said chair, and adapted to be adjusted in position to extend below the rocker surface to engage the floor and chock the rockers to prevent the chair from rocking. The scotches may be wholly concealed by mounting the same interiorly of the uprights or posts 5 which are provided with a central bore 8 in which the scotches, which are in the form of struts, may be reciprocated longitudinally, the same being mounted in guides as at 9, 9, 10, and normally held retracted by a spring 11, and each provided with a handle 12 accessible from the outside of the post by which it may be depressed in opposition to the spring 11, which is fastened to the strut by steel-pin 13 and rests on the top of the guide member 9.

Clamping means accessible to the occupant of the chair are provided to hold the strut or scotch 7 depressed in opposition to the spring 11, and projecting downwardly below the floor face of the rocker. Said means may be a friction clamp consisting of a cramp plate 14 hinged inside the central bore 8 to the plate which forms the guide 10 said guide plate having a curved hinged lip 15 in which the end of the cramp plate seats. Both the guide and the clamping plate 14; are perforated. to allow the strut to pass therethrough and to slide freely u and down at any time except when held y the friction gripping or cramping plate 14 which is arranged to prevent the upward movement of the strut except when the plate 14 is depressed.

16 designates a thimble inserted through the rocker and into the lower end of the upright standard or post 5. The top of this thimble forms the guide 9.

17 is a recessed flush-plate let into a gain 18 at an upper portion of the post 5, and pro vided with a vertical slot 19 through which the clamp-plate 14 and the strut-handle 12 protrude so that the user may have access to both.

The strut or stem 7 may be a rod provided at its lower end with a head 20 having a recess 21 and a ball-race 22 in which balls 23- originally manufactured is made to fit the stem 7 and the lower end. is provided with an enlargement to receive the head 20 and the balls 23 and 24. The head 20 may be separate from the main body of the stem 7 and may be secured in the socket-piece 25 by means of a pin a, whereupon the balls 23 and 24- may be placed in position, and then the end of the socket-piece may be spun or otherwise contracted around the ball 24 to hold the same and balls 23 in place; then the scotch or stem 7 may be inserted into the socket-piece 25 and secured by pin 5. Then the stem will be inserted through the washer 27 and then through the thimble 16; then the coil-spring 11 will be brought into place around the-stem and against the guide-end 9 of the thimble 16, and its upper end se cured in place by the pin 13. The flush plate 17 is orovided with a transverse slot 28 through which the handle 12 may be inserted from the inner side outward, thus to bring the stem 29 of said handle into the slot 19 of the flush-plate.

The guide-plate 10 maybe provided with a seat 30 for the spring 31 which is seated between the guide-plate and clamp-plate to normally hold the clamp-plate 14 extended away from the guide-plate 10 as shown in Fig. 6. The guide-plate 10 may be fastened by rivets 32 to the flush-plate 17; the spring- 31 placedin its seat and the clamp-plate 14 inserted through the slot 28 and into the curved hinge lip 15, compressing the spring 31 in the operation, so that said spring will tend to normally hold the clamp-plate 14 up to engage the stem 7.

The handle 12 is provided with a socket 33 to fit the stem 7 to which the handle may be secured by a screw 34. When the handle and guide-plate and clamp have been applied to the flush-plate 17, said plate may be insorted into the gain 18 provided therefor, and fastened by screws 35. hen the scotch strut or stem '7 may be inserted into the bore 8 and through the guide-plate 10 and clampplate 14, and into the socket 33 where it will be secured by means of the screw 34 whereupon the appliance is ready for use. Each devices.

of the other until they all engage the floor. 5

It is evident that the clamping plates 14 will immediately act 011 the stems to hold the scotches in that position. Vfhen all of the scotches are thus held in contact with the floor or other supporting surface, the chair will be held positively in the assumed position, regardless of the unevenness of such surface. In case it is desired to give a backward tilt to the seat of the chair, the scotches of the front will be pushed down farther than the scotches at the back, and vice versa. TVhenever a backward tilt is given to the seat of the chair, the back of the chair is thus made to slant back farther than would otherwise be possible with the same adjustment of the back that is to say, a chair constructed to admit of a certain rearward slant to its back can, by means of this improvement, be made to slant farther back than would otherwise be possible, thus adapting the chair to a double adjustment; viZ., that of the ordinary Morris chair, and that effected by extension of the legs by means of the struts or scotches.

In case the chair is to be used as a standing or dining room chair, the scotches may all be brought approximately to the same degree of protrusion from below the rockers, thus to hold the seat level. By variously adjusting the scotches, the user can bring the chair to any angle he may desire.

I claim 1 1. A rocking chair provided with hollow posts, scotches adjustably mounted in the posts and extending through the rockers of the chair, springs for the scotches respectively to hold the same elevated out of checking position, handles projecting from the scotches respectively, and friction clamps for the scotches respectively, said clamps and handles being mainly chambered in the posts respectively.

2. A chair leg provided with a longitudinal bore and with a gain, a flush-plate fastened in said gain and provided with a longitudinal slot and a transverse slot, a guide-plate extending through said transverse slot and rovided with a hinge-piece, a friction p ate seated in said hinge-piece and extending.

through said transverse slot, a handle provided with a socket and extending through St1(l'lO11g1l'/u(ll11dl slot, and a strut extending in the bore and through the guide-plate and l clamp-plate and fastened to the handle. of the four posts 5 will be provided with like 3. A chair leg provided with a longitudinal bore and with a gain, a flush-plate fastened in said gain and provided with a longitudinal slot and a transverse slot, a guide-plate eX- tending through said transverse slot and provided with a hingapiece, a friction clam plate seated in said hinge-piece and eXten ing through said transverse slot, a handle provided with a socket and extending through said longitudinal slot, a strut extending in the bore and through the guide-plate and clamp-plate and fastened to the handle, and a spring for holding the strut normally retracted.

4. The combination with a chair leg provided with a longitudinal bore and with a gain, of a thiinble inserted in the end of the bore, a strut provided at its lower end with a bearing ball and extending along the bore, a spring engaging the thilnble to normally hold the strut retracted, a flush-plate provided with a longitudinal slot and secured in the gain of the leg, a handle fastened to said stem and extending through said slot,

and clamping means to hold the strut in extended position.

A rocking chair provided with hollow posts, scotches adjustably mounted in the posts and adapted to extend through the rockers of the chair, springs for the scotches respectively to hold the same withdrawn into the osts, handles projecting from the scotc ies respectively, two hinged plates for each of the sootches, said plates being adapted to engage said scotohes to hold the same depressed, and springs for holding said plates in relative scotch.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles California this 9th day of February 1907.

ARTHUR L. HALEY.

In presence of- JAMES R. TOWNSEND, JULIA TowNsENn.

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